World Exclusive First HVX200 Footage..PART 2

Out of curiosity has an uncompressed screengrab from either 720 or 1080 been posted? I'd love to take it into photoshop and play around with it. Zoom in, look at the details up close etc. That would also give us a (rather rough) taste of what you guys over there are seeing.
 
Amazing! How did you get a shot of the IROC Z28? I thought they were hunted down and destroyed in the 80's!!!

Super crisp images. Thanks for all your hard work guys ... like everyone else has been saying: this site is an invaluable resourse.

Spanks Bruvas!
 
Jarred, I guess this site will need to be renamed "hvxuser" pretty soon. Seems a major paradigm shift is unfolding.
 
Hmm, i dont get it. The quality looks pretty nice yes, but every single file I tried to dl and play was choppy as hell the whole time. Is that just me? I tried other video files and everything plays great and smooth but not this HVX stuff. HELP!
 
Jarred and Barry,
Could you guys please share the lighting set ups for each of these shots?
If possible, I'd really like to see one of those bird's eye blueprint grids, like what American Cinematographer Magazine uses as a visual aid for many of their articles detailing the process.
You guys are doing a great job.
 
JackFoley said:
Cool! The best footage so far. The DOF is impressive.

But still, there is some edge enhancement going on (look at the stones on the ground of the car szene) that gives a little "video-ish" look. But I'm sure one can turn it down via menu settings.

The guitar szene is breath taking. Also the closeups. Nothing more to add. ;)
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Edge enhancement can definitely be turned down. I think we were running at default (because we didn't have a monitor -- everything you're seeing here was shot with just the camera, using just the focus assist feature) so I couldn't determine optimal settings. This is pretty much the default F6 scene file. I think the default edge enhancement is set at zero or -3, and of course it goes all the way to -7.
 
Ernest_Acosta said:
Jarrod, thanks for the Windows file. It looks good. Did you use a 35mm adapter to get that shallow depth of field? Or is it just the camera (via techniques)? Also any word on an HD Rack for the HVX?
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No adapters at all. That's just the results of a skilled cinematographer using what he had to get the best results. Zoom in, open up the iris, and separate the subject away from the background...

Haven't heard any updates from Serious Magic so I don't know any news from them.
 
NBCshooter said:
I saw this footage at the show. Whomever DP'd that (Jarred?) really knows what they're doing. Beautiful lighting and camera work. Excellent job!
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That was DP'd by Jay Nemeth, a very skilled cinematographer in Vegas and L.A. He's the guy who shot the spot that got me an Emmy, so Jay's all right in my book! :thumbsup:
 
Yeah, I overheard Jay Nemeth on the show floor say that the guy in this footage (reading the newspaper) is one of the guys from the Blue Man Group.

And the guy sitting at the bar on his cellphone, from the other footage, was wasted.:laugh:

-BillP
 
wabbit said:
Truely gorgeous. Although my download didn't have any audio...what up with that? :grin: jk
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The audio detracts from the images -- instead of focusing on what you're seeing, you start trying to pay attention to what's happening in the scenes. We made a conscious decision to nuke the audio.

Did you guys get a chance to shoot some res and color charts while you had the HVX?
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Not really, no. The crunch was on -- I flew back from NC Wednesday at 1:00 a.m., and Thursday at 9:00 a.m. we were shooting the interior stuff, then I drove to the gym and Pat shot the kung fu 720p stuff until 11:30 p.m., then I crashed at home until 7:00 a.m. to go drive to the middle of the desert to shoot the exterior stuff until 2:00, and then I had to drive to Los Angeles so Art Aldrich could start editing the footage to get it ready for Panasonic's press event. So no, no time for charts and stuff, and besides, that kind of formal lab testing needs to wait until we have a production-line, serial-numbered, bought-off-the-shelf unit so we know it's representative of the final, finished product.
 
..ok, I (only) just got the chance to pull this footage up on a 1080 native HDTV display
(A nice sony 23" Luma studio LCD)

Looking at the WMVHD 1080 footage right now... SWEET JESUS.

:cheesy: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :shocked: :shocked: :laugh: :beer: :cheesy: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :cheesy: :shocked:

- Mikko
 
Luis Caffesse said:
Any idea when we'll get some 60fps slow-mo footage?
THAT is what I'm really waiting for...
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I haven't watched the 720p reel yet -- isn't the karate guy in there? Isn't there 60p? We shot 12, 22, 36, 48, and 60 of all sorts of stuff. If they didn't post that, I'll try to see if I can work something up later. Not sure whether my beta version of DVFilm Maker will let me extract variable-frame-rate footage or not...
 
what can i say... im speechless... :lipsrseal the footage looks awsome :) . thanks panasonic for such a great camera and thanks Barry & Jarred for all the hard work, all that you guys do is much appreciated. :thumbsup:
 
Toaster said:
Amazing! How did you get a shot of the IROC Z28? I thought they were hunted down and destroyed in the 80's!!!
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The lead actor's girlfriend (I think) owns it. Needless to say, they were very protective of it!
 
Digigenic said:
Jarred and Barry,
Could you guys please share the lighting set ups for each of these shots?
If possible, I'd really like to see one of those bird's eye blueprint grids, like what American Cinematographer Magazine uses as a visual aid for many of their articles detailing the process.
You guys are doing a great job.
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For the outdoors stuff? That's easy. Point the camera. Shoot.

The only thing we did for lighting at all on the outdoors stuff was use a white/silver beadboard card for a little fill, but it was mostly useless because the day was quite cloudy, and the desert acts like a big gold bounce card anyway. :grin:
 
I dunno what the hell is wrong with that WMV file, but it brought my dual G5 2,5 to its knees in fullscreen... Had to watch it on PC. Once again, AMAZING! I'm getting this cam whenever the PAL version comes out.

EDIT: Btw, Jarred/Barry, are you planning to recompress that first attempt at 1080p footage? Would love to see it with pulldown removed.
 
jrv3034 said:
Unreal. Absolutely unreal. Can't wait to see actual DVCProHD 1080/24p footage on a Samsung 80" Plasma 1080p HDTV to see it in it's full glory!

PS- Has anyone been to the Samsung store in the Time Warner building in NYC? That 80" Plasma is the most breathtaking thing I've ever seen! Sadly, it only costs around $40,000!!!
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Yes, I work for CNN in the Time Warner Center and we have those same screens in the studio. When I get my HVX, I will certainly try to hook it up to one of those monitors to see the goodness :)
 
The WMV-HD plays and looks fantastic. Easily the best HD footage I have seen yet on my monitor. Looks better than the stuff you see in the MS HD Showcase. Keep the footage coming.......
 
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